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</style></head><body><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr /><td align="left" valign="top" width="32"><img align="left" border="0" height="32" src="images/rb-logo.png" width="32" /></td><td width="1">&#160;&#160;</td><td class="postheader" valign="center"><a href="index.html"><font color="#004faf">Home</font></a>&#160;&#183; <a href="classes.html"><font color="#004faf">All Classes</font></a>&#160;&#183; <a href="modules.html"><font color="#004faf">Modules</font></a></td></table><h1 align="center">QDomNode Class Reference<br /><sup><sup>[<a href="qtxml.html">QtXml</a> module]</sup></sup></h1><p>The QDomNode class is the base class for all the nodes in a DOM
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<p>Inherited by <a href="qdomattr.html">QDomAttr</a>, <a href="qdomcharacterdata.html">QDomCharacterData</a>, <a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a>, <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>, <a href="qdomdocumenttype.html">QDomDocumentType</a>, <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a>, <a href="qdomentity.html">QDomEntity</a>, <a href="qdomentityreference.html">QDomEntityReference</a>, <a href="qdomnotation.html">QDomNotation</a> and <a href="qdomprocessinginstruction.html">QDomProcessingInstruction</a>.</p><h3>Types</h3><ul><li><div class="fn" />enum <b><a href="qdomnode.html#EncodingPolicy-enum">EncodingPolicy</a></b> { EncodingFromDocument, EncodingFromTextStream }</li><li><div class="fn" />enum <b><a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">NodeType</a></b> { ElementNode, AttributeNode, TextNode, CDATASectionNode, ..., CharacterDataNode }</li></ul><h3>Methods</h3><ul><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#QDomNode">__init__</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#QDomNode-2">__init__</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#appendChild">appendChild</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>newChild</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNamedNodeMap <b><a href="qdomnode.html#attributes">attributes</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNodeList <b><a href="qdomnode.html#childNodes">childNodes</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#clear">clear</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#cloneNode">cloneNode</a></b> (<i>self</i>, bool&#160;<i>deep</i>&#160;=&#160;True)</li><li><div class="fn" />int <b><a href="qdomnode.html#columnNumber">columnNumber</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#firstChild">firstChild</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomElement <b><a href="qdomnode.html#firstChildElement">firstChildElement</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#hasAttributes">hasAttributes</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#hasChildNodes">hasChildNodes</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#insertAfter">insertAfter</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>newChild</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>refChild</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#insertBefore">insertBefore</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>newChild</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>refChild</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isAttr">isAttr</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isCDATASection">isCDATASection</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isCharacterData">isCharacterData</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isComment">isComment</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isDocument">isDocument</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isDocumentFragment">isDocumentFragment</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isDocumentType">isDocumentType</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isElement">isElement</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isEntity">isEntity</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isEntityReference">isEntityReference</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isNotation">isNotation</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">isNull</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isProcessingInstruction">isProcessingInstruction</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isSupported">isSupported</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>feature</i>, QString&#160;<i>version</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#isText">isText</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#lastChild">lastChild</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomElement <b><a href="qdomnode.html#lastChildElement">lastChildElement</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</li><li><div class="fn" />int <b><a href="qdomnode.html#lineNumber">lineNumber</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QString <b><a href="qdomnode.html#localName">localName</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#namedItem">namedItem</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>name</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QString <b><a href="qdomnode.html#namespaceURI">namespaceURI</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#nextSibling">nextSibling</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomElement <b><a href="qdomnode.html#nextSiblingElement">nextSiblingElement</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</li><li><div class="fn" />QString <b><a href="qdomnode.html#nodeName">nodeName</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />NodeType <b><a href="qdomnode.html#nodeType">nodeType</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QString <b><a href="qdomnode.html#nodeValue">nodeValue</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#normalize">normalize</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomDocument <b><a href="qdomnode.html#ownerDocument">ownerDocument</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#parentNode">parentNode</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QString <b><a href="qdomnode.html#prefix">prefix</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#previousSibling">previousSibling</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomElement <b><a href="qdomnode.html#previousSiblingElement">previousSiblingElement</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#removeChild">removeChild</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>oldChild</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNode <b><a href="qdomnode.html#replaceChild">replaceChild</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>newChild</i>, QDomNode&#160;<i>oldChild</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#save">save</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QTextStream, int)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#save-2">save</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QTextStream, int, EncodingPolicy)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#setNodeValue">setNodeValue</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString)</li><li><div class="fn" /><b><a href="qdomnode.html#setPrefix">setPrefix</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>pre</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomAttr <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toAttr">toAttr</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomCDATASection <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toCDATASection">toCDATASection</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomCharacterData <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toCharacterData">toCharacterData</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomComment <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toComment">toComment</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomDocument <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toDocument">toDocument</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomDocumentFragment <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentFragment">toDocumentFragment</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomDocumentType <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentType">toDocumentType</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomElement <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toElement">toElement</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomEntity <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toEntity">toEntity</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomEntityReference <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toEntityReference">toEntityReference</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomNotation <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toNotation">toNotation</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomProcessingInstruction <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toProcessingInstruction">toProcessingInstruction</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li><li><div class="fn" />QDomText <b><a href="qdomnode.html#toText">toText</a></b> (<i>self</i>)</li></ul><h3>Special Methods</h3><ul><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#__eq__">__eq__</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode)</li><li><div class="fn" />bool <b><a href="qdomnode.html#__ne__">__ne__</a></b> (<i>self</i>, QDomNode)</li></ul><a name="details" /><hr /><h2>Detailed Description</h2><p>The QDomNode class is the base class for all the nodes in a DOM
tree.</p>
<p>Many functions in the DOM return a QDomNode.</p>
<p>You can find out the type of a node using <a href="qdomnode.html#isAttr">isAttr</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isCDATASection">isCDATASection</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isDocumentFragment">isDocumentFragment</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#isDocument">isDocument</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isDocumentType">isDocumentType</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isElement">isElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isEntityReference">isEntityReference</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isText">isText</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isEntity">isEntity</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isNotation">isNotation</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#isProcessingInstruction">isProcessingInstruction</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#isCharacterData">isCharacterData</a>() and
<a href="qdomnode.html#isComment">isComment</a>().</p>
<p>A QDomNode can be converted into one of its subclasses using
<a href="qdomnode.html#toAttr">toAttr</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toCDATASection">toCDATASection</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentFragment">toDocumentFragment</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#toDocument">toDocument</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentType">toDocumentType</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toElement">toElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntityReference">toEntityReference</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toText">toText</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntity">toEntity</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toNotation">toNotation</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toProcessingInstruction">toProcessingInstruction</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#toCharacterData">toCharacterData</a>() or
<a href="qdomnode.html#toComment">toComment</a>(). You can convert
a node to a null node with <a href="qdomnode.html#clear">clear</a>().</p>
<p>Copies of the QDomNode class share their data using explicit
sharing. This means that modifying one node will change all copies.
This is especially useful in combination with functions which
return a QDomNode, e.g. <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChild">firstChild</a>(). You can make an
independent (deep) copy of the node with <a href="qdomnode.html#cloneNode">cloneNode</a>().</p>
<p>A QDomNode can be null, much like a null pointer. Creating a
copy of a null node results in another null node. It is not
possible to modify a null node, but it is possible to assign
another, possibly non-null node to it. In this case, the copy of
the null node will remain null. You can check if a QDomNode is null
by calling <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">isNull</a>(). The empty
constructor of a QDomNode (or any of the derived classes) creates a
null node.</p>
<p>Nodes are inserted with <a href="qdomnode.html#insertBefore">insertBefore</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#insertAfter">insertAfter</a>() or <a href="qdomnode.html#appendChild">appendChild</a>(). You can replace one
node with another using <a href="qdomnode.html#replaceChild">replaceChild</a>() and remove a node
with <a href="qdomnode.html#removeChild">removeChild</a>().</p>
<p>To traverse nodes use <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChild">firstChild</a>() to get a node's first
child (if any), and <a href="qdomnode.html#nextSibling">nextSibling</a>() to traverse. QDomNode
also provides <a href="qdomnode.html#lastChild">lastChild</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#previousSibling">previousSibling</a>() and
<a href="qdomnode.html#parentNode">parentNode</a>(). To find the
first child node with a particular node name use <a href="qdomnode.html#namedItem">namedItem</a>().</p>
<p>To find out if a node has children use <a href="qdomnode.html#hasChildNodes">hasChildNodes</a>() and to get a list
of all of a node's children use <a href="qdomnode.html#childNodes">childNodes</a>().</p>
<p>The node's name and value (the meaning of which varies depending
on its type) is returned by <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeName">nodeName</a>() and <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeValue">nodeValue</a>() respectively. The node's
type is returned by <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeType">nodeType</a>(). The node's value can be
set with <a href="qdomnode.html#setNodeValue">setNodeValue</a>().</p>
<p>The document to which the node belongs is returned by <a href="qdomnode.html#ownerDocument">ownerDocument</a>().</p>
<p>Adjacent <a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a> nodes can be
merged into a single node with <a href="qdomnode.html#normalize">normalize</a>().</p>
<p><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> nodes have attributes
which can be retrieved with <a href="qdomnode.html#attributes">attributes</a>().</p>
<p><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> and <a href="qdomattr.html">QDomAttr</a> nodes can have namespaces which can be
retrieved with <a href="qdomnode.html#namespaceURIx">namespaceURI</a>(). Their local name
is retrieved with <a href="qdomnode.html#localName">localName</a>(), and their prefix with
<a href="qdomnode.html#prefix">prefix</a>(). The prefix can be set
with <a href="qdomnode.html#setPrefix">setPrefix</a>().</p>
<p>You can write the XML representation of the node to a text
stream with <a href="qdomnode.html#save">save</a>().</p>
<p>The following example looks for the first element in an XML
document and prints the names of all the elements that are its
direct children.</p>
<pre class="cpp">
 <span class="type"><a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a></span> d;
 d<span class="operator">.</span>setContent(someXML);
 <span class="type">QDomNode</span> n <span class="operator">=</span> d<span class="operator">.</span><a href="qdomnode.html#firstChild">firstChild</a>();
 <span class="keyword">while</span> (<span class="operator">!</span>n<span class="operator">.</span>isNull()) {
     <span class="keyword">if</span> (n<span class="operator">.</span>isElement()) {
         <span class="type"><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a></span> e <span class="operator">=</span> n<span class="operator">.</span>toElement();
         cout <span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">&lt;</span> <span class="string">"Element name: "</span> <span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">&lt;</span> e<span class="operator">.</span>tagName() <span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">&lt;</span> endl;
         <span class="keyword">break</span>;
     }
     n <span class="operator">=</span> n<span class="operator">.</span>nextSibling();
 }
</pre>
<p>For further information about the Document Object Model see
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/">Level 1</a> and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">Level 2 Core</a>.
For a more general introduction of the DOM implementation see the
<a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a> documentation.</p>
<hr /><h2>Type Documentation</h2><h3 class="fn"><a name="EncodingPolicy-enum" />QDomNode.EncodingPolicy</h3><p>This enum specifies how <a href="qdomnode.html#save">QDomNode.save</a>() determines what encoding
to use when serializing.</p>
<table class="valuelist">
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<th class="tblConst">Constant</th>
<th class="tblval">Value</th>
<th class="tbldscr">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.EncodingFromDocument</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>1</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">The encoding is fetched from the
document.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.EncodingFromTextStream</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>2</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">The encoding is fetched from the <a href="qtextstream.html">QTextStream</a>.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>See also the overload of the <a href="qdomnode.html#save">save</a>() function that takes an
EncodingPolicy.</p>
<p>This enum was introduced or modified in Qt 4.3.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="NodeType-enum" />QDomNode.NodeType</h3><p>This enum defines the type of the node:</p>
<table class="valuelist">
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<th class="tblConst">Constant</th>
<th class="tblval">Value</th>
<th class="tbldscr">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.ElementNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>1</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.AttributeNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>2</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.TextNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>3</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.CDATASectionNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>4</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.EntityReferenceNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>5</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.EntityNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>6</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign">
<tt>QDomNode.ProcessingInstructionNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>7</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.CommentNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>8</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.DocumentNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>9</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.DocumentTypeNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>10</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.DocumentFragmentNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>11</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.NotationNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>12</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.BaseNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>21</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">A <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> object,
i.e. not a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> subclass.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>QDomNode.CharacterDataNode</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign"><tt>22</tt></td>
<td class="topAlign">&#160;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr /><h2>Method Documentation</h2><h3 class="fn"><a name="QDomNode" />QDomNode.__init__ (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Constructs a <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a> node.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="QDomNode-2" />QDomNode.__init__ (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>)</h3><p>Constructs a copy of <i>n</i>.</p>
<p>The data of the copy is shared (shallow copy): modifying one
node will also change the other. If you want to make a deep copy,
use <a href="qdomnode.html#cloneNode">cloneNode</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="appendChild" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.appendChild (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>newChild</i>)</h3><p>Appends <i>newChild</i> as the node's last child.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is the child of another node, it is
reparented to this node. If <i>newChild</i> is a child of this
node, then its position in the list of children is changed.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is a <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>, then the
children of the fragment are removed from the fragment and
appended.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is a <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> and this node is a <a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a> that already has an element
node as a child, <i>newChild</i> is not added as a child and a null
node is returned.</p>
<p>Returns a new reference to <i>newChild</i> on success or a
<a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> on failure.</p>
<p>Calling this function on a null node(created, for example, with
the default constructor) does nothing and returns a <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a>.</p>
<p>The DOM specification disallow inserting attribute nodes, but
for historical reasons, QDom accepts them anyway.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#insertBefore">insertBefore</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#insertAfter">insertAfter</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#replaceChild">replaceChild</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#removeChild">removeChild</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="attributes" /><a href="qdomnamednodemap.html">QDomNamedNodeMap</a> QDomNode.attributes (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns a named node map of all attributes. Attributes are only
provided for <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a>s.</p>
<p>Changing the attributes in the map will also change the
attributes of this <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="childNodes" /><a href="qdomnodelist.html">QDomNodeList</a> QDomNode.childNodes (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns a list of all direct child nodes.</p>
<p>Most often you will call this function on a <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> object.</p>
<p>For example, if the XML document looks like this:</p>
<pre class="cpp">
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>body<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>h1<span class="operator">&gt;</span>Heading<span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>h1<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>p<span class="operator">&gt;</span>Hello <span class="operator">&lt;</span>b<span class="operator">&gt;</span>you<span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>b<span class="operator">&gt;</span><span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>p<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>body<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
</pre>
<p>Then the list of child nodes for the "body"-element will contain
the node created by the &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt; tag and the node created
by the &amp;lt;p&amp;gt; tag.</p>
<p>The nodes in the list are not copied; so changing the nodes in
the list will also change the children of this node.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChild">firstChild</a>() and <a href="qdomnode.html#lastChild">lastChild</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="clear" />QDomNode.clear (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts the node into a null node; if it was not a null node
before, its type and contents are deleted.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">isNull</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="cloneNode" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.cloneNode (<i>self</i>, bool&#160;<i>deep</i>&#160;=&#160;True)</h3><p>Creates a deep (not shallow) copy of the <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>.</p>
<p>If <i>deep</i> is true, then the cloning is done recursively
which means that all the node's children are deep copied too. If
<i>deep</i> is false only the node itself is copied and the copy
will have no child nodes.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="columnNumber" />int QDomNode.columnNumber (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>For nodes created by <a href="qdomdocument.html#setContent">QDomDocument.setContent</a>(), this
function returns the column number in the XML document where the
node was parsed. Otherwise, -1 is returned.</p>
<p>This function was introduced in Qt 4.1.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#lineNumber">lineNumber</a>() and <a href="qdomdocument.html#setContent">QDomDocument.setContent</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="firstChild" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.firstChild (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the first child of the node. If there is no child node,
a <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> is returned.
Changing the returned node will also change the node in the
document tree.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#lastChild">lastChild</a>() and <a href="qdomnode.html#childNodes">childNodes</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="firstChildElement" /><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> QDomNode.firstChildElement (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</h3><p>Returns the first child element with tag name <i>tagName</i> if
tagName is non-empty; otherwise returns the first child element.
Returns a null element if no such child exists.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#lastChildElement">lastChildElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#previousSiblingElement">previousSiblingElement</a>(),
and <a href="qdomnode.html#nextSiblingElement">nextSiblingElement</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="hasAttributes" />bool QDomNode.hasAttributes (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node has attributes; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#attributes">attributes</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="hasChildNodes" />bool QDomNode.hasChildNodes (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node has one or more children; otherwise
returns false.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="insertAfter" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.insertAfter (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>newChild</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>refChild</i>)</h3><p>Inserts the node <i>newChild</i> after the child node
<i>refChild</i>. <i>refChild</i> must be a direct child of this
node. If <i>refChild</i> is <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>
then <i>newChild</i> is appended as this node's last child.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is the child of another node, it is
reparented to this node. If <i>newChild</i> is a child of this
node, then its position in the list of children is changed.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is a <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>, then the
children of the fragment are removed from the fragment and inserted
after <i>refChild</i>.</p>
<p>Returns a new reference to <i>newChild</i> on success or a
<a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> on failure.</p>
<p>The DOM specification disallow inserting attribute nodes, but
due to historical reasons QDom accept them nevertheless.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#insertBefore">insertBefore</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#replaceChild">replaceChild</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#removeChild">removeChild</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#appendChild">appendChild</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="insertBefore" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.insertBefore (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>newChild</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>refChild</i>)</h3><p>Inserts the node <i>newChild</i> before the child node
<i>refChild</i>. <i>refChild</i> must be a direct child of this
node. If <i>refChild</i> is <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>
then <i>newChild</i> is inserted as the node's first child.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is the child of another node, it is
reparented to this node. If <i>newChild</i> is a child of this
node, then its position in the list of children is changed.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is a <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>, then the
children of the fragment are removed from the fragment and inserted
before <i>refChild</i>.</p>
<p>Returns a new reference to <i>newChild</i> on success or a
<a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> on failure.</p>
<p>The DOM specification disallow inserting attribute nodes, but
due to historical reasons QDom accept them nevertheless.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#insertAfter">insertAfter</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#replaceChild">replaceChild</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#removeChild">removeChild</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#appendChild">appendChild</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isAttr" />bool QDomNode.isAttr (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is an attribute; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a QDomAttribute; you can get the QDomAttribute with
toAttribute().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toAttr">toAttr</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isCDATASection" />bool QDomNode.isCDATASection (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a CDATA section; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a>;
you can get the <a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toCDATASection">toCDATASection</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toCDATASection">toCDATASection</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isCharacterData" />bool QDomNode.isCharacterData (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a character data node; otherwise
returns false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomcharacterdata.html">QDomCharacterData</a>;
you can get the <a href="qdomcharacterdata.html">QDomCharacterData</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toCharacterData">toCharacterData</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toCharacterData">toCharacterData</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isComment" />bool QDomNode.isComment (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a comment; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomcomment.html">QDomComment</a>; you can get
the <a href="qdomcomment.html">QDomComment</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toComment">toComment</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toComment">toComment</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isDocument" />bool QDomNode.isDocument (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a document; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a>; you can
get the <a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocument">toDocument</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocument">toDocument</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isDocumentFragment" />bool QDomNode.isDocumentFragment (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a document fragment; otherwise
returns false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>; you can get
the <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>
with <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentFragment">toDocumentFragment</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentFragment">toDocumentFragment</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isDocumentType" />bool QDomNode.isDocumentType (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a document type; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomdocumenttype.html">QDomDocumentType</a>;
you can get the <a href="qdomdocumenttype.html">QDomDocumentType</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentType">toDocumentType</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentType">toDocumentType</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isElement" />bool QDomNode.isElement (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is an element; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a>; you can get
the <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toElement">toElement</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toElement">toElement</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isEntity" />bool QDomNode.isEntity (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is an entity; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomentity.html">QDomEntity</a>; you can get
the <a href="qdomentity.html">QDomEntity</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntity">toEntity</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntity">toEntity</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isEntityReference" />bool QDomNode.isEntityReference (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is an entity reference; otherwise
returns false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomentityreference.html">QDomEntityReference</a>; you can get the
<a href="qdomentityreference.html">QDomEntityReference</a> with
<a href="qdomnode.html#toEntityReference">toEntityReference</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntityReference">toEntityReference</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isNotation" />bool QDomNode.isNotation (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a notation; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomnotation.html">QDomNotation</a>; you can
get the <a href="qdomnotation.html">QDomNotation</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toNotation">toNotation</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toNotation">toNotation</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isNull" />bool QDomNode.isNull (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if this node is null (i.e. if it has no type or
contents); otherwise returns false.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isProcessingInstruction" />bool QDomNode.isProcessingInstruction (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a processing instruction; otherwise
returns false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomprocessinginstruction.html">QDomProcessingInstruction</a>; you
can get the QProcessingInstruction with <a href="qdomnode.html#toProcessingInstruction">toProcessingInstruction</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toProcessingInstruction">toProcessingInstruction</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isSupported" />bool QDomNode.isSupported (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>feature</i>, QString&#160;<i>version</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the DOM implementation implements the feature
<i>feature</i> and this feature is supported by this node in the
version <i>version</i>; otherwise returns false.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomimplementation.html#hasFeature">QDomImplementation.hasFeature</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="isText" />bool QDomNode.isText (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns true if the node is a text node; otherwise returns
false.</p>
<p>If this function returns true, it does not imply that this
object is a <a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a>; you can get the
<a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a> with <a href="qdomnode.html#toText">toText</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toText">toText</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="lastChild" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.lastChild (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the last child of the node. If there is no child node, a
<a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> is returned. Changing
the returned node will also change the node in the document
tree.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChild">firstChild</a>() and <a href="qdomnode.html#childNodes">childNodes</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="lastChildElement" /><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> QDomNode.lastChildElement (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</h3><p>Returns the last child element with tag name <i>tagName</i> if
tagName is non-empty; otherwise returns the last child element.
Returns a null element if no such child exists.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChildElement">firstChildElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#previousSiblingElement">previousSiblingElement</a>(),
and <a href="qdomnode.html#nextSiblingElement">nextSiblingElement</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="lineNumber" />int QDomNode.lineNumber (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>For nodes created by <a href="qdomdocument.html#setContent">QDomDocument.setContent</a>(), this
function returns the line number in the XML document where the node
was parsed. Otherwise, -1 is returned.</p>
<p>This function was introduced in Qt 4.1.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#columnNumber">columnNumber</a>() and <a href="qdomdocument.html#setContent">QDomDocument.setContent</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="localName" />QString QDomNode.localName (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>If the node uses namespaces, this function returns the local
name of the node; otherwise it returns an empty string.</p>
<p>Only nodes of type <a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">ElementNode</a> or <a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">AttributeNode</a> can have
namespaces. A namespace must have been specified at creation time;
it is not possible to add a namespace afterwards.</p>
<p><a href="qdomdocument.html#createAttributeNS">QDomDocument.createAttributeNS</a>()</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#prefix">prefix</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#namespaceURIx">namespaceURI</a>(), and
<a href="qdomdocument.html#createElementNS">QDomDocument.createElementNS</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="namedItem" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.namedItem (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>name</i>)</h3><p>Returns the first direct child node for which <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeName">nodeName</a>() equals <i>name</i>.</p>
<p>If no such direct child exists, a <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> is returned.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeName">nodeName</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="namespaceURI" />QString QDomNode.namespaceURI (<i>self</i>)</h3><h3 class="fn"><a name="nextSibling" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.nextSibling (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the next sibling in the document tree. Changing the
returned node will also change the node in the document tree.</p>
<p>If you have XML like this:</p>
<pre class="cpp">
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>h1<span class="operator">&gt;</span>Heading<span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>h1<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>p<span class="operator">&gt;</span>The text<span class="operator">.</span><span class="operator">.</span><span class="operator">.</span><span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>p<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>h2<span class="operator">&gt;</span>Next heading<span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>h2<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
</pre>
<p>and this <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> represents the
&lt;p&gt; tag, nextSibling() will return the node representing the
&lt;h2&gt; tag.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#previousSibling">previousSibling</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="nextSiblingElement" /><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> QDomNode.nextSiblingElement (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</h3><p>Returns the next sibling element with tag name <i>tagName</i> if
<i>tagName</i> is non-empty; otherwise returns any next sibling
element. Returns a null element if no such sibling exists.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChildElement">firstChildElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#previousSiblingElement">previousSiblingElement</a>(),
and <a href="qdomnode.html#lastChildElement">lastChildElement</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="nodeName" />QString QDomNode.nodeName (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the name of the node.</p>
<p>The meaning of the name depends on the subclass:</p>
<table class="generic">
<thead>
<tr class="qt-style">
<th>Name</th>
<th>Meaning</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomattr.html">QDomAttr</a></td>
<td>The name of the attribute</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a></td>
<td>The string "#cdata-section"</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomcomment.html">QDomComment</a></td>
<td>The string "#comment"</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a></td>
<td>The string "#document"</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a></td>
<td>The string "#document-fragment"</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomdocumenttype.html">QDomDocumentType</a></td>
<td>The name of the document type</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a></td>
<td>The tag name</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomentity.html">QDomEntity</a></td>
<td>The name of the entity</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomentityreference.html">QDomEntityReference</a></td>
<td>The name of the referenced entity</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomnotation.html">QDomNotation</a></td>
<td>The name of the notation</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomprocessinginstruction.html">QDomProcessingInstruction</a></td>
<td>The target of the processing instruction</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a></td>
<td>The string "#text"</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><b>Note:</b> This function does not take the presence of
namespaces into account when processing the names of element and
attribute nodes. As a result, the returned name can contain any
namespace prefix that may be present. To obtain the node name of an
element or attribute, use <a href="qdomnode.html#localName">localName</a>(); to obtain the namespace
prefix, use <a href="qdomnode.html#namespaceURIx">namespaceURI</a>().</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeValue">nodeValue</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="nodeType" /><a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">NodeType</a> QDomNode.nodeType (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the type of the node.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#toAttr">toAttr</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#toCDATASection">toCDATASection</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentFragment">toDocumentFragment</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#toDocument">toDocument</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toDocumentType">toDocumentType</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toElement">toElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntityReference">toEntityReference</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toText">toText</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toEntity">toEntity</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toNotation">toNotation</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#toProcessingInstruction">toProcessingInstruction</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#toCharacterData">toCharacterData</a>(), and
<a href="qdomnode.html#toComment">toComment</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="nodeValue" />QString QDomNode.nodeValue (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the value of the node.</p>
<p>The meaning of the value depends on the subclass:</p>
<table class="generic">
<thead>
<tr class="qt-style">
<th>Name</th>
<th>Meaning</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomattr.html">QDomAttr</a></td>
<td>The attribute value</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a></td>
<td>The content of the CDATA section</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomcomment.html">QDomComment</a></td>
<td>The comment</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomprocessinginstruction.html">QDomProcessingInstruction</a></td>
<td>The data of the processing instruction</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd" valign="top">
<td><a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a></td>
<td>The text</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>All the other subclasses do not have a node value and will
return an empty string.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#setNodeValue">setNodeValue</a>() and <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeName">nodeName</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="normalize" />QDomNode.normalize (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Calling normalize() on an element converts all its children into
a standard form. This means that adjacent <a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a> objects will be merged into a single
text object (<a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a>
nodes are not merged).</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="ownerDocument" /><a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a> QDomNode.ownerDocument (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the document to which this node belongs.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="parentNode" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.parentNode (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the parent node. If this node has no parent, a null node
is returned (i.e. a node for which <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">isNull</a>() returns true).</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="prefix" />QString QDomNode.prefix (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the namespace prefix of the node or an empty string if
the node has no namespace prefix.</p>
<p>Only nodes of type <a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">ElementNode</a> or <a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">AttributeNode</a> can have
namespaces. A namespace prefix must be specified at creation time.
If a node was created with a namespace prefix, you can change it
later with <a href="qdomnode.html#setPrefix">setPrefix</a>().</p>
<p>If you create an element or attribute with <a href="qdomdocument.html#createElement">QDomDocument.createElement</a>()
or <a href="qdomdocument.html#createAttribute">QDomDocument.createAttribute</a>(),
the prefix will be an empty string. If you use <a href="qdomdocument.html#createElementNS">QDomDocument.createElementNS</a>()
or <a href="qdomdocument.html#createAttributeNS">QDomDocument.createAttributeNS</a>()
instead, the prefix will not be an empty string; but it might be an
empty string if the name does not have a prefix.</p>
<p><a href="qdomdocument.html#createElementNS">QDomDocument.createElementNS</a>()
<a href="qdomdocument.html#createAttributeNS">QDomDocument.createAttributeNS</a>()</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#setPrefix">setPrefix</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#localName">localName</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#namespaceURIx">namespaceURI</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="previousSibling" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.previousSibling (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Returns the previous sibling in the document tree. Changing the
returned node will also change the node in the document tree.</p>
<p>For example, if you have XML like this:</p>
<pre class="cpp">
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>h1<span class="operator">&gt;</span>Heading<span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>h1<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>p<span class="operator">&gt;</span>The text<span class="operator">.</span><span class="operator">.</span><span class="operator">.</span><span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>p<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
 <span class="operator">&lt;</span>h2<span class="operator">&gt;</span>Next heading<span class="operator">&lt;</span><span class="operator">/</span>h2<span class="operator">&gt;</span>
</pre>
<p>and this <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> represents the
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; tag, previousSibling() will return the node
representing the &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt; tag.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#nextSibling">nextSibling</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="previousSiblingElement" /><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> QDomNode.previousSiblingElement (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>tagName</i>&#160;=&#160;QString())</h3><p>Returns the previous sibilng element with tag name
<i>tagName</i> if <i>tagName</i> is non-empty; otherwise returns
any previous sibling element. Returns a null element if no such
sibling exists.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#firstChildElement">firstChildElement</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#nextSiblingElement">nextSiblingElement</a>(), and
<a href="qdomnode.html#lastChildElement">lastChildElement</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="removeChild" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.removeChild (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>oldChild</i>)</h3><p>Removes <i>oldChild</i> from the list of children.
<i>oldChild</i> must be a direct child of this node.</p>
<p>Returns a new reference to <i>oldChild</i> on success or a
<a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> on failure.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#insertBefore">insertBefore</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#insertAfter">insertAfter</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#replaceChild">replaceChild</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#appendChild">appendChild</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="replaceChild" /><a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> QDomNode.replaceChild (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>newChild</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>&#160;<i>oldChild</i>)</h3><p>Replaces <i>oldChild</i> with <i>newChild</i>. <i>oldChild</i>
must be a direct child of this node.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is the child of another node, it is
reparented to this node. If <i>newChild</i> is a child of this
node, then its position in the list of children is changed.</p>
<p>If <i>newChild</i> is a <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>, then
<i>oldChild</i> is replaced by all of the children of the
fragment.</p>
<p>Returns a new reference to <i>oldChild</i> on success or a
<a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null node</a> an failure.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#insertBefore">insertBefore</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#insertAfter">insertAfter</a>(), <a href="qdomnode.html#removeChild">removeChild</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#appendChild">appendChild</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="save" />QDomNode.save (<i>self</i>, <a href="qtextstream.html">QTextStream</a>, int)</h3><p>Writes the XML representation of the node and all its children
to the stream <i>str</i>. This function uses <i>indent</i> as the
amount of space to indent the node.</p>
<p>If this node is a document node, the encoding of text stream
<i>str</i>'s encoding is set by treating a processing instruction
by name "xml" as an XML declaration, if such a one exists, and
otherwise defaults to UTF-8. XML declarations are not processing
instructions, but this behavior exists for historical reasons. If
this node is not a document node, the text stream's encoding is
used.</p>
<p>If the document contains invalid XML characters or characters
that cannot be encoded in the given encoding, the result and
behavior is undefined.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="save-2" />QDomNode.save (<i>self</i>, <a href="qtextstream.html">QTextStream</a>, int, <a href="qdomnode.html#EncodingPolicy-enum">EncodingPolicy</a>)</h3><p>If <i>encodingPolicy</i> is <a href="qdomnode.html#EncodingPolicy-enum">QDomNode.EncodingFromDocument</a>,
this function behaves as save(<a href="qtextstream.html">QTextStream</a> &amp;str, int indent).</p>
<p>If <i>encodingPolicy</i> is <a href="qdomnode.html#EncodingPolicy-enum">EncodingFromTextStream</a> and
this node is a document node, this function behaves as
save(<a href="qtextstream.html">QTextStream</a> &amp;str, int
indent) with the exception that the encoding specified in the text
stream <i>str</i> is used.</p>
<p>If the document contains invalid XML characters or characters
that cannot be encoded in the given encoding, the result and
behavior is undefined.</p>
<p>This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="setNodeValue" />QDomNode.setNodeValue (<i>self</i>, QString)</h3><p>Sets the node's value to <i>v</i>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#nodeValue">nodeValue</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="setPrefix" />QDomNode.setPrefix (<i>self</i>, QString&#160;<i>pre</i>)</h3><p>If the node has a namespace prefix, this function changes the
namespace prefix of the node to <i>pre</i>. Otherwise this function
does nothing.</p>
<p>Only nodes of type <a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">ElementNode</a> or <a href="qdomnode.html#NodeType-enum">AttributeNode</a> can have
namespaces. A namespace prefix must have be specified at creation
time; it is not possible to add a namespace prefix afterwards.</p>
<p><a href="qdomdocument.html#createElementNS">QDomDocument.createElementNS</a>()
<a href="qdomdocument.html#createAttributeNS">QDomDocument.createAttributeNS</a>()</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#prefix">prefix</a>(),
<a href="qdomnode.html#localName">localName</a>(), and <a href="qdomnode.html#namespaceURIx">namespaceURI</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toAttr" /><a href="qdomattr.html">QDomAttr</a> QDomNode.toAttr (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomattr.html">QDomAttr</a>. If the node is not an attribute, the
returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isAttr">isAttr</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toCDATASection" /><a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a> QDomNode.toCDATASection (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomcdatasection.html">QDomCDATASection</a>. If the node is not a
CDATA section, the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isCDATASection">isCDATASection</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toCharacterData" /><a href="qdomcharacterdata.html">QDomCharacterData</a> QDomNode.toCharacterData (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomcharacterdata.html">QDomCharacterData</a>. If the node is not
a character data node the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isCharacterData">isCharacterData</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toComment" /><a href="qdomcomment.html">QDomComment</a> QDomNode.toComment (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomcomment.html">QDomComment</a>. If the node is not a comment
the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isComment">isComment</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toDocument" /><a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a> QDomNode.toDocument (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomdocument.html">QDomDocument</a>. If the node is not a document
the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isDocument">isDocument</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toDocumentFragment" /><a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a> QDomNode.toDocumentFragment (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomdocumentfragment.html">QDomDocumentFragment</a>. If the node
is not a document fragment the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isDocumentFragment">isDocumentFragment</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toDocumentType" /><a href="qdomdocumenttype.html">QDomDocumentType</a> QDomNode.toDocumentType (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomdocumenttype.html">QDomDocumentType</a>. If the node is not a
document type the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isDocumentType">isDocumentType</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toElement" /><a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a> QDomNode.toElement (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomelement.html">QDomElement</a>. If the node is not an element
the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isElement">isElement</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toEntity" /><a href="qdomentity.html">QDomEntity</a> QDomNode.toEntity (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomentity.html">QDomEntity</a>. If the node is not an entity the
returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isEntity">isEntity</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toEntityReference" /><a href="qdomentityreference.html">QDomEntityReference</a> QDomNode.toEntityReference (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomentityreference.html">QDomEntityReference</a>. If the node is
not an entity reference, the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isEntityReference">isEntityReference</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toNotation" /><a href="qdomnotation.html">QDomNotation</a> QDomNode.toNotation (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomnotation.html">QDomNotation</a>. If the node is not a notation
the returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isNotation">isNotation</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toProcessingInstruction" /><a href="qdomprocessinginstruction.html">QDomProcessingInstruction</a> QDomNode.toProcessingInstruction (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomprocessinginstruction.html">QDomProcessingInstruction</a>. If
the node is not a processing instruction the returned object will
be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isProcessingInstruction">isProcessingInstruction</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="toText" /><a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a> QDomNode.toText (<i>self</i>)</h3><p>Converts a <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a> into a <a href="qdomtext.html">QDomText</a>. If the node is not a text, the
returned object will be <a href="qdomnode.html#isNull">null</a>.</p>
<p><b>See also</b> <a href="qdomnode.html#isText">isText</a>().</p>


<h3 class="fn"><a name="__eq__" />bool QDomNode.__eq__ (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>)</h3><h3 class="fn"><a name="__ne__" />bool QDomNode.__ne__ (<i>self</i>, <a href="qdomnode.html">QDomNode</a>)</h3><address><hr /><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr class="address"><td align="left" width="25%">PyQt&#160;snapshot-4.9.5-9eb6aac99275 for X11</td><td align="center" width="50%">Copyright &#169; <a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.com">Riverbank&#160;Computing&#160;Ltd</a> and <a href="http://www.qtsoftware.com">Nokia</a> 2012</td><td align="right" width="25%">Qt&#160;4.8.3</td></tr></table></div></address></body></html>